Posts in category Vintage + Historical Oddities

Jasper Maskelyne used plywood and canvases to make trucks look like tanks and tanks look like trucks.

A meat-eorologic mystery.

For a time, about every one in 25 residents of Chilmark were Deaf.

The creature visited the sleepy island in the summer of 1937, leaving footprints in the sand measuring more than five feet wide.

One man decided to prove once and for all the edibility of tomatoes.

While some may view chicken poop as an ineffective, or even comical, torture device, this could not be further from the truth.

With a wave of his magic wand, Robert-Houdin managed to convince rebels they did not have the power to overthrow their rulers.

Everyone who was anyone in Medieval Europe wore poulaines.

People became enamored with the physical effects of contracting the illness. Pale skin, thin waists, and flushed cheeks were seen as quite desirable.

Held in 1967, the first Super Bowl did not feature a star-studded musical concert, but it DID have two men flying around in jet packs.